Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Stupidity

Quotes about: Stupidity

• Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Ignorance, Character, Vanity

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Volume II, Chapter XI, 1688.

• Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Spring, Ignorance, Vanity

• If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mother, Father, Stupidity

• There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Success, Stupid, Two

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